Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. The great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson...
Edwin Thacher, '63, slide rule inventor, designer of the five-span Kansas River Bridge at Topeka...
...Said Webster on July 4, 1851: "Before us is the broad and beautiful river, separating two of the original Thirteen States, which a late President, a man of determined purpose and inflexible will but patriotic heart, desired to span with arches of ever-enduring granite, symbolical of the firmly established union of the North and the South. That President was General Jackson...
Climbing slowly to the dizzy height of the upper span while the breathless crowd watched in an agony of suspense, the man poised for a fleeting second and then plunged into a mass of correspondence which had accumulated during his absence. An immediate blood transfusion was decided...
Last week, then, the sea-dogs of the world howled protestingly when it was announced that the 1925 Nautical Almanac would, by vote of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, impose the landlubber's midnight-to-midnight span upon all mariners...